Just a few months ago, residents were enthralled with the lion cubs at the Oklahoma City Zoo, participating in naming them and even watching them through a live "cub cam" from KFOR. Now, zoo officials are expecting similar fanfare over the snow leopard cubs born last May.

The new duo, a male and a female, will make their Oklahoma City Zoo debut in the Cat Forest on August 1st and be outside, weather permitting, daily from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. In the meantime, you can check out news on the cubs at the zoo's MySpace page.

Snow leopards are considered a critically endangered species, with only 3,500 to 7,000 left in the wild. These cubs are the first snow leopard litter born at the OKC Zoo in 16 years.

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